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OpenAI dissolved its robotics department. Then, this brought it back. Now, through a social media post from its chief hardware officer and recently published job descriptions,…
Researchers open-source Sky-T1, a ‘thinking’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450
So-called reasoning AI models are getting easier — and cheaper — to develop. On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers based at UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing…
Hey guys, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, the US Supreme Court struck down Chevron deference, a 40-year-old ruling on federal…
Google’s environmental report avoids the true energy costs of artificial intelligence
Google has released its 2024 Environmental Report, a more than 80-page document outlining all of the giant company’s efforts to apply technology to environmental issues and…
Meta intends to bring more productive AI technology to games, especially VR, AR, and mixed reality games, as the company tries to revitalize its transition-marking strategy.…
Anthropic is launching one program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including production…
In the early 1990s, a researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology began working on what would become Paro. More than 30…
If data really is the fuel for productive AI, and one of the keys to a successful implementation is access to data that makes sense for…
One of the selling points of Google’s flagship AI models, Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash, is the amount of data they can supposedly process and…
As part of a legal settlement, the Detroit Police Department agreed to new guardrails that limit how facial recognition technology is used. These new policies prohibit…